DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Bristol

Development Operations Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Bristol is £71,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 76 80
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 52 7 44
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.61% 0.63% 1.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.71% 0.68% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 44 6 43
10th Percentile £55,000 £51,625 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,063 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £68,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -14.06% +23.08%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,813 £87,500
90th Percentile £90,875 £93,750 -
South West median annual salary £87,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +34.62% -7.14% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bristol. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Bristol with a recognized job title 3,039 1,026 2,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 92.68% 96.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,305 760 1,519
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,375 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -7.65%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,625 £70,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Bristol

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Bristol.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Bristol

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in Bristol

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 24 September 2026, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Bristol region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 52 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (40.38%) AWS
3 14 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 12 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (21.15%) Terraform
7 10 (19.23%) Docker
8 9 (17.31%) Azure
8 9 (17.31%) Containerisation
8 9 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (15.38%) Agile
9 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
9 8 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (13.46%) Observability
11 6 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (11.54%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (11.54%) GitLab
11 6 (11.54%) SaaS
11 6 (11.54%) Secrets Management
12 5 (9.62%) Bash
12 5 (9.62%) Business Continuity
12 5 (9.62%) Software Engineering
13 4 (7.69%) AI
13 4 (7.69%) Git
13 4 (7.69%) Grafana
13 4 (7.69%) Kubernetes
13 4 (7.69%) Network Management
13 4 (7.69%) PowerShell

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.85%) Confluence
1 2 (3.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 21 (40.38%) AWS
2 9 (17.31%) Azure
3 6 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (11.54%) SaaS
4 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.77%) GCP
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.85%) Route 53
5 2 (3.85%) Serverless
5 2 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.92%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) Network Security
2 1 (1.92%) DNS
2 1 (1.92%) Firewall
2 1 (1.92%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.92%) DocumentDB
2 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.92%) MySQL
2 1 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (11.54%) GitLab
2 4 (7.69%) Git
3 3 (5.77%) git-flow
3 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.85%) JIRA
5 1 (1.92%) Balsamiq
5 1 (1.92%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.92%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.92%) Postman
General
1 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (3.85%) Social Skills
2 1 (1.92%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (21.15%) Terraform
2 2 (3.85%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.92%) .NET
3 1 (1.92%) Next.js
3 1 (1.92%) Node.js
3 1 (1.92%) React
3 1 (1.92%) React Native
3 1 (1.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.69%) PropTech
3 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Linux
1 2 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) DevOps
2 14 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (17.31%) Containerisation
5 9 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (15.38%) Agile
6 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
6 8 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (13.46%) Observability
8 6 (11.54%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (11.54%) Secrets Management
9 5 (9.62%) Business Continuity
9 5 (9.62%) Software Engineering
10 4 (7.69%) AI
10 4 (7.69%) Network Management
11 3 (5.77%) BCP
11 3 (5.77%) Configuration Management
11 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.62%) Bash
2 4 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.69%) Python
3 2 (3.85%) Java
3 2 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.92%) Bicep
4 1 (1.92%) C#
4 1 (1.92%) Go
4 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.92%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 4 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (19.23%) Docker
2 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Grafana
1 4 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 4 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 2 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (3.85%) Ansible
2 2 (3.85%) Puppet
2 2 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (3.85%) Atlassian
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
1 2 (3.85%) Red Hat
2 1 (1.92%) Google